Festival of Roses ~ Day Eleven ~ ABC Wednesday

Hybrid Tea Rose 'Legend'

Festival of Roses ~ Day Eleven ~ ABC Wednesday

2007 Digital Flower Pictures.com Festival of Roses Continues

Happy ABC Wednesday to all.

Today’s featured rose is the Hybrid Tea, Legend. It was bred by William Warriner, who I think, has become my favorite rose breeder. Jackson and Perkins and Mr. Warriner are quite a team. ‘Legend’ is a beautiful rose that seemed to me to be classic in every sense of the word. Just a straight ahead red rose with nice sized flowers growing on long stems. Dark green glossy foliage completes the package.

Some facts on Legend:
Class: Hybrid Tea
Origin: William A. Warriner, US, 1992
U.S. Introduction: Jackson & Perkins Co.
Petal Count: 45
Fragrance: Strong, Fruity
Parentage: Grand Masterpiece × Seedling
Synonyms: JACtop

Here is something I hadn’t seen the actual Patent document for a rose variety:
click here

Keeping with my Rose Festival so far I thought I would post at least a couple of ‘L’ roses. This next one is a cute little bugger that I saw in the Bronx. I almost missed as the other shrub roses were kind of smothering it. It is actually a Floribunda rose. I was kind of neutral about white roses but they are actually very beautiful particularly when the light strikes them right.

Floribunda Rose 'Lion's Fairy Tale'
Origin: W. Kordes & Sons., Germany, 2002
U.S. Introduction: Ashdown Roses, 2007
Fragrance: Mild Sweet
Synonyms: Champagne Moment, KORvanaber, Lions-Rose

Pioneer Shrub Rose F. J. Lindheimer

I took the pictures of this rose on Saturday. It is a Pioneer Shrub Rose called F. J. Lindheimer. It was really nice for a shrub rose, growing on a semi-compact bush with clean recurved foliage. The colors vary with the seasonal temperatures.


I think I will wrap up the festival tomorrow. I am running out of rose photos and I need to try and capture some of the fall flowers and foliage before they are gone.

Here are some of the other blogs that are participating in ABC Wednesday. If you want to join let me know and I will add your link.

mrs nesbitts place
hin's photoblog
tech the man
a bit of this a dash of that
Little Rock Daily Photo
photoxication
Kissing the Dogwood
strolling through Georgia
Ruth's Garden Blog
dwq online
kate isis
bidadlah.com
photography by kml
AVCR8TEUR'S Blog
Salty Dogs
The Modern Goddess
Simply Sage
HeART of the Nest
Gemmas House
author blog
kai
Mollitudes
Ten Forty Blogspot
Nevada Daily Photo
Ackworth born, gone West

Not all the blogs are participating each week but most are.

2007 Rose Festival ~ Day Three ~ Grandflora Roses

Grandiflora Rose 'Tournament of Roses'

2007 Rose Festival ~ Day Three
Grandflora Roses

The Rose Festival continues with Tournament of Roses a Grandiflora rose that is named after the huge New Years Day celebration in Pasadena, California. Here is a link to the Official website which has a lot of information on the festivities:
click here

From the history page:

“The first Tournament of Roses was staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club, former residents of the East and Midwest eager to showcase their new home's mild winter weather."
"In New York, people are buried in snow," announced Professor Charles F. Holder at a Club meeting. "Here our flowers are blooming and our oranges are about to bear. Let's hold a festival to tell the world about our paradise."

I have always wanted to attend the party. I guess some people want to go to the World Series or the Super Bowl but I want to go to the Tournament of Roses. That is like those two events rolled into one. Someday I will get out there but since it requires traveling over the holidays I will have to convince my wife to go. I entered the sweepstakes to win a free trip but I know those are mostly to get my name and address to spam me.

Grandiflora Rose 'Tournament of Roses'

About the rose. This is another William Warriner/ Jackson and Perkins introduction. I seem to be typing that a lot lately. It is a lovely pink double flowered rose that doesn’t grow too tall (3-4 feet, in my garden). There is really not a fragrance to speak of. It won the AARS award in 1989, the year after its introduction. One other note about this rose, when the Montreal Botanical Garden did a study on Black Spot, Rust and Powdery Mildew Tournament of Roses showed a 0-5% infection rate, one of the best.

Petal Count: 17-25
Parentage: Impatient × Seedling
Synonyms: JACient, Jackson & Perkins Rose Poesie

Another Grandiflora from ‘my’ garden is this beautiful white rose called ‘White Lightnin’. It is a relatively small rose but it has a nice pure color to it. It has kind of a lemony-citrus smell to it. This rose was bred by Jack E. Christensen and introduced by Armstrong Roses. It turns out Mr. Christensen has a website:

List of Christensen Roses
You’ll see he has bred some beauties!

and his Home Page:

Jack Christensen Home Page

Jack Christensen's Grandiflora rose ‘White Lightnin’

Parentage: Angel Face × Misty
Synonyms: AROwhif

Just a quick word about Grandiflora roses. They are descendants of Hybrid Teas and Floribunda roses. The often have the long stems, large flowers and bud shapes of the Hybrid Teas and bloom one to a stem or in clusters like a Floribunda. This class of roses was started for the rose ‘Queen Elizabeth’ in 1954 and that is still the most popular variety of this type.

Group shot of Grandiflora Rose 'Queen Elizabeth'

'Queen Elizabeth'
Origin: Dr. Walter Lammerts, 1954, US
Petal Count: 38
Parentage: Charlotte Armstrong × Floradora
Fragrance: Mild
Synonyms: Queen of England, The Queen Elizabeth Rose
This rose was bred to mark Elizabeth Alexandra Mary’s ascension to the British throne in 1952.

This is a cool USDA Zone finder by Zip Code I found at the Jackson and Perkins site:
Zone Finder by Zip Code (US only)

2007 Rose Festival ~ Day Two

Generally considered to be the first Hybrid Tea Rose, 'La France'

2007 Rose Festival ~ Day Two

Today’s featured roses are of the Hybrid Tea class, my personal favorite. Created in the mid-1800’s the Hybrid tea roses quickly became the most popular roses of the 20th Century. Growing with straight stems with a single large bloom at the terminus the hybrid tea certainly expanded the range of colors available to gardeners. I must say now the Floribundas and Grandifloras are catching up now. The higher maintenance and greater disease susceptibility of the Hybrid Teas have cut into their popularity. I still like them and some of my favorite roses are in this class including Peace and most of its relatives, Double Delight, Mr. Lincoln, and Tropicana just to name a few.

Generally thought to be the first Hybrid tea rose, ‘La France’ would have to be considered plain by today’s standards. It is a light lavender color with a smallish flower. I thought it was handsome not even knowing its history. I am glad I got to see and take a picture of this historic rose.

Petal Count: 60
Parentage: Seedling of Madame Falcot (much debated)
Fragrance: Strong
Origin: France (1867), Jean-Baptiste André Guillot.

Rather then post some of the Hybrid Teas mentioned above (I’ll probably post some later in the week) I decided to try and pick a couple of not so popular examples. They may not be popular for a reason but I do believe that every rose has someone out there that likes it and can grow it. I know sometimes it is a case of availability, some of the garden centers I buy roses from only have a few Hybrid Teas and then only the most popular. I think that starts at the wholesale level also. I don’t blame them they need to have what sells. I think mail order is probably the best way to get unusual roses and I have had pretty good luck getting the roses to thrive.

Note: I am not saying these roses are rare or not popular. It is just from my limited sample of some private and public gardens and wholesale and retail nurseries that you don’t see them as often. I know that rose growing is very regionalized and these varieties may be more popular in other areas.



‘Rio Samba’ is an interesting yellow blend Hybrid Tea. It certainly was shining on the somewhat gloomy day I toured the FDR Rose Garden in Hyde Park. It has a nice sized flower on plants that were about 5 feet tall. Bred by William Warriner and introduced by Jackson and Perkins it is named after the Samba dancers of the Rio Carnival. It was a 1993 AARS award selection and has good disease resistance.

Petal Count: 25-30
Parentage: Seedling × Sunbright
Fragrance: Mild
Synonyms: JACrite



Another Hybrid Tea that caught my eye at the FDR Garden and I hadn’t seen before was ‘Pristine’. I think the first thing I noticed was its perfectly shaped flowers. They were really big and had a delicate pink shading around the outside. This rose won both the prestigious Royal National Rose Society (UK) Certificate of Merit and the Edland Fragrance Medal in 1979. It captured a Gold Medal at the Portland Rose Trials that same year.

Origin: William A. Warriner, United States (1978).
Introduced: United States by Jackson & Perkins Co.
Height: 4 feet
Petal Count: 22-30
Parentage: White Masterpiece × First Prize
Fragrance: Some references said mild but I thought it was strong and very pleasant
Synonyms: JACpico

Half a Dozen Roses

Hybrid Tea Rose 'Brigadoon'

Half a Dozen Roses

The rose garden at the farm is coming along nicely and I decided to take some pictures over there. I was joking with my co-workers that I was the ‘Head Rose Grower’ at the farm. I reality I guess I am but I am also the only rose grower. I inherited all of the varieties in the garden. In a way that was helpful as I am growing a lot of roses I would have never chosen due to my own prejudices and previous bad experiences with some varieties and types. I probably would also have been worried a lot about colors. Instead I have this huge mix of varieties and colors that I wouldn’t have dreamed up on my own. I think there is a little lesson in there for me. Since there is room for about 35 more roses I will have to keep this mind when picking out the new roses.

Starting out with one of my favorites, and that is always subject to change, a beautiful pink blend (really hard to describe how beautiful the color is) Hybrid Tea Rose. Bred by William Warriner in 1991 and introduced by Jackson and Perkins in 1992. This rose has a petal count of 30-40 petals and a nice fragrance. It was an All-American Rose Selection in 1992.

Parentage: Seedling x Pristine
Height: 3 feet
Synonyms: JACpal

Moving on, there are several white roses in the garden. White Lighting and Moondance have both been good performers. This one, Pascali, is a small flowered Hybrid Tea. I don’t know if my bush is producing small flowers or that is the way the rose truly is. The Lens family bred this rose in Belgium in 1963. It was a 1969 All-American Rose Selection.

Hybrid Tea Rose 'Pascali'

Fragrance: None
Parentage: Queen Elizabeth × White Butterfly
Height: 30 inches
Synonyms: Blanche Pasca, LENip

Here is another white one, although it is technically a white blend. ‘White Delight’ is also a Hybrid Tea rose and another one bred by William Warriner. I couldn’t find a lot of information on this rose other than the temperature has a lot to do with the color of the flowers.

Hybrid Tea Roae 'White Delight'

Fragrance: Mild
Parentage: White Masterpiece × Futura
Synonyms: JACglow

I posted a rose named ‘Molly Mc Greedy’ a little while back that looked very similar to this rose. I think the color is a little darker and the buds are more pointed on this one, but the color scheme is close. How could you not love a rose named ‘Love’? This is another William Warriner and Jackson and Perkins introduction (am I sensing an unintentional theme here with the Warriner roses?). It is a very beautiful disease resistant and heavy blooming rose. It won the AARS award in 1980 and also won a Gold Metal at the Portland Rose Trials that same year.

Grandiflora Rose 'Love'

Type: Grandiflora
Fragrance: Strong
Parentage: Seedling × Redgold
Petal Count: 30-35
Synonyms: JACtwin, 71-5324

In the large flowered category we have the apricot blend Floribunda ‘Honey Perfume’. This rose was also an All-American Rose Selection (2004). It is (in my garden) a tall plant that’s has had continuous blooms in large clusters. It has a very strong pleasant fragrance and the flowers are a beautiful color. It has shown good disease resistance so far. Although also introduced by J&P, it was bred by Dr. Keith Zary.

Floribunda Rose ‘Honey Perfume’

Parentage: Seedling × Amber Queen
Petal Count: 25-40
Height: 42 inches
Synonyms: JACarque

Finally, I feel a bit like I am running a marathon here, is a rose that I said I didn’t really care for previously. However, upon further review I think, 'Scentimental' is unique and beautiful. It has a bit of whimsy and that isn’t a bad thing in the garden (in moderation). It is a Floribunda and considered a red blend, striped rose. It has a strong fragrance and fairly large flowers. Each of the flowers has a different pattern so that is kind of fun. This was the first striped rose to win the AARS award (1997). Bred by Tom Carruth for Weeks roses it was introduced in the United States in 1997. For more information on Mr. Carruth there is an article in this post:
click here. There is a link to more information about the AARS awards if you are not familiar with them.

Floribunda Rose 'Scentimental'

Parentage: Playboy × Peppermint Twist
Petal Count: 25-36
Height: 48 inches
Synonyms: Scentimental Sunflor, WEKplapep

That’s all I have time for right now. If anybody has been growing any of these roses please post a comment. I would be happy to hear of your experiences.

Hybrid Tea Rose ‘Spellbound’

Hybrid Tea Rose ‘Spellbound’
Synonym: JACpribe

I can’t give any personal experience on growing this rose. I must say that the color and form was captivating. I forgot to smell it although I was rushing around when I snapped this photo. It is from a rose garden that I am officially going to be caring for now. It has 160 plants in it, with many types and colors. There are only about 20 or 30 repeat varieties so it really covers a broad spectrum. I am looking forward to the challenge of keeping it up.

'Spellbound' had the most ‘clean’ flowers in the garden, although one of my new favorites ‘Strike it Rich’ was a close second. This rose was bred by Dr. Keith Zary and introduced in 2006 by Jackson & Perkins and was named their 2006 ‘Rose of the Year’. Dr. Zary started work at J & P in 1985 as only the fourth breeder in the company’s long history.

Spellbound
Type: Large Flowered Hybrid Tea
Parentage: Ingrid Bergman × Pristine (hybrid tea, Warriner 1978)
Petal Count: 30
Fragrance: Mild. Spicy
Height: 5 feet



Here is a picture of part of the rose garden. I wish I had a wide angle lens with me to capture the whole thing, You can see it needs a little help but it is still producing some flowers. It is a lot of garden to work with and that is always helpful.